The
Baker
Dallas,
Texas
27.
Nov. 1927
Margaret
Darling:
Much
as ever, if I know the days of the week any more. After
my twelve hour trip from Oklahoma City to Waco, where
I arrived at midnight, I had a good sleep and my Thanksgiving
dinner with the kind Armstrongs. Then went on to San
Antonio a five hour journey, as I wanted to see that
old one time Spanish town. It is very delightful. Maybe
I wrote you about it? I saw all the old Missions in
the surrounding country and was taken to Corpus Christi
a small Gulf City yesterday. Motored down, 150 miles,
had a very fine shore dinner and came back to San Antonio
by night train. Reached San Antonio at seven this a.m.
left at nine, and reached [here] at five this evening.
Now I go from here at eleven, and reach my next town
at two in the morning for a ten o’clock reading.1
Then I have only three more to do.
It
is too swift, but I am all right.
The
last reading is at Tulsa University, Tulsa, Okla.,2
on the 2nd c/o A.L. Herrold, but you wont [sic] have
time to reach me, I think. I do hope it has all be[en]
worthwhile. It hardly seems possible that they can get
any good from such flighty visits. Poetry can’t be got
at wholesale. And the audiences are enormous.
I
should reach Toronto about the fourth or fifth, if all
goes well.
But
I am too tired to do much but keep going. No not tired,
but sapped.
Love
C.
O
but you should have seen San Antonio and the Missions!
I had to give up Santa Fe [sic] this time. Too far.
-
Probably
at Southeastern State College, a co-educational
institution founded in 1909 in Durant, Oklahoma
(see Letter 40). [back]
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The
University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma was a co-educational
institution founded in 1894. Until 1928, when it
became non-denominational, it was controlled by
the Presbyterian Church. [back]
